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Can A Dose Of Iron Supplements Improve The Health Of The Ocean And Climate
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host a public forum next week to discuss the pros and cons of "iron fertilization" of the oceans as a means to mediate global warming. The forum, entitled "Ocean Fertilization: Ironing Out Uncertainties in Climate Engineering," is a public follow-up to an interdisciplinary science workshop conducted at WHOI in September. ... more Greenhouse gas and war: How they are related 
Paris (AFP) Oct 14, 2007How can the Nobel Peace Prize -- intended for those who labour for "fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses" -- be awarded for work on climate change? Skeptics were swift to raise this question after the planet's most prestigious award went to former US president Al Gore for his campaigning on global warming and th ... more Philippines attempts to sell deadly volcanoes to tourists 
Santa Juliana, Philippines (AFP) Oct 14, 2007Rickety old jeeps barrel through a dry northern Philippines riverbed, setting off a dust storm that coats the visitors bouncing around on the back seat. The landscape around Mount Pinatubo is evolving again 16 years after a gigantic volcanic eruption killed more than 1,500 people and sent a cloud of ash into the atmosphere cooling world temperatures for years. The fine sand deposited by ... more Petitioners' village in Beijing razed as China's communists vow harmony 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2007Amid vows to create a "harmonious society", China's authorities have razed a ramshackle Beijing district where thousands once resided while seeking to petition the government over growing injustices. More than 50 police vehicles from all parts of China were parked along alleys into the district, known as "petitioners' village," as uniformed officers this weekend checked identification and r ... more Gore Nobel win shows up Bush: US press 
Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2007US newspapers Saturday hailed Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against climate change, saying it showed up failings of President George W. Bush in the seven years since he beat Gore to the White House. "For more than 20 years, Mr. Gore persisted in the face of intense skepticism and criticism with his warnings about the impact of global warming on the planet," the Washington Post wr ... more |
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Neuherberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Neuherberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2007 The cow as a killer of the climate: This inglorious role of our four-legged friends, peaceful in itself, is well-enough recognised, because, with their digestion, the animals produce methane, which is expelled continuously. Now, however, a team of German scientists from the Institute of Soil Ecology of the GSF - National Research Center for Environment and ... more EC Unveils New EU Maritime Policy 
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Oct 15, 2007The European Commission has adopted an Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union, which has the world's largest maritime territory, marking the first time in its 50 years that it will have a strategic approach to decision-making in Maritime Affairs. The policy was unveiled at a press conference on 10 October in Brussels, Belgium. European Commissioner in charge of Fisheries and Mar ... more Australian drought pushes up price of beer 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 14, 2007A cold glass of beer is about to become more expensive in much of Australia, after prolonged drought wiped out much of the winter barley crop. The price of other staples such as meat and bread will also rise by as much as 10 percent, New South Wales Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said. After little or no rain in September, almost 80 percent of New South Wales state is now in a ... more China's trade surplus scorches into record territory 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2007China's trade surplus this year has already scorched past the record 12-month figure of 2006, official data showed Friday, giving further ammunition to critics of the Asian giant's currency policies. On a day of eye-popping economic data, the customs bureau said the accumulated surplus from January to September was 185.7 billion dollars, exceeding the 177.5 billion dollars for all of last ye ... more Commentary: New global paradigm 
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 So far, watching the presidential pre-debate debates, no one has suggested how he or she wants the world to look like 15 to 20 years on the high road to the future. No one seems to have noticed, let alone mentioned, a new global paradigm: the newfound importance of rivers of capital that have displaced the flow of goods for measuring national wealth. Also new actors on the global stage that de ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 Five Eastern European states have agreed to build a new oil pipeline, in a move they say increases their energy security by reducing dependency on Russia. Azerbaijan, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia and Ukraine on Oct. 10 signed a deal that could provide Eastern (and ultimately Western) Europe with an alternative to Russian oil imports. The treaty, signed by the five countries' presi ... more NIST Light Source Illuminates Fusion Power Diagnostics 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Using a device that can turn a tiny piece of laboratory space into an ion cloud as hot as those found in a nuclear fusion reactor, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are helping to develop one of the most exotic yardsticks on earth, an instrument to monitor conditions in the plasma of an experimental fusion reactor. Their measurement tool also is used in inca ... more Analysis: Hunt, State talked on Iraq oil 
Washington (UPI) Oct 12, 2007 A representative from Dallas-based Hunt Oil Corp. did talk with the U.S. State Department prior to signing a controversial oil deal with Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government, according to an internal department communication obtained by United Press International. Hunt Oil, whose chief executive officer is connected to the Bush administration by campaign donations and a seat on an intel ... more Nuclear reactors for sale: France vies for big stake in industry revival 
Flamanville, France (AFP) Oct 14, 2007On a strip of France's Channel coast, cranes, trucks and cement silos are hard at work preparing the world's most powerful nuclear reactor and showcase of French atomic savoir-faire. In two months, workers in Flamanville will pour the first concrete for the third-generation EPR, or European Pressurized Reactor, touted as the safest and cleanest addition to France's network of 58 nuclear reac ... more Robotic Rockhounds: Interview with David Wettergreen Part 2 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Astrobiology Magazine recently interviewed David Wettergreen, an associate research professor with Carnegie Mellon University's Field Robotics Center. In this, the second segment of a four-part interview, Wettergreen talks about the robot Nomad, which began its career as a fossil-hunter in Chile's Atacama Desert, and later was sent to Antarctica to search for meteorites. Astrobiology Magaz ... more
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